Equality
ACAS has launched three, free equality guides to help employers and managers get to grips with the law on equality. The three guides - “Equality and discrimination: understand the basics”; “Prevent discrimination: support equality”; and “Discrimination: wha
Fuel Poverty
In 2012/2013, at least 10,000 people died from the impacts of living in a cold home, including thousands of people in London, and we are likely to learn that thousands more died last winter. At the same time the Big Six energy companies made £3.7bn in profit – this is equal
Health & Safety
Unite has produced a vital guide for all heath and safety reps - download it here
Unite resources on health and sfety can be found
Homeleness Workers Alliance
September saw the second meeting of the Homelessness Workers Alliance. A collective of reps and activists in different organisations from across the sector who are coming together to fight for better pay and conditions.
We are fed up with years of declining wages, that leav
Housing crisis
An escalating housing crisis has been developing across the UK as a result of central government policies and the practices of local authorities. Unite is actively campaigning on demands to end to social cleansing, end the Right to Buy, proper rent controls for all renters, whether hous
Sector Standards
The Unite Housing Workers Branch is working with Unite for Our Society and the National Housing Forum on a campaign to stop the race to the bottom in social care and housing.
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Social Housing Action Campaign
SHAC grew from the Axe the Housing Act Summit held on the 26th November 2016. The summit brought together campaigners across a vast range of housing tenures, including council, private and housing association landlords, cooperatives, boat dwellers, and homeless people. It was a force through whic